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Summary
DevOps, Cloud & AI Engineer designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure at scale. Track record of cutting deployment cycle times, owning multi-environment AWS estates with Terraform, and contributing production fixes to OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus upstream. Certified in AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Focused on platform engineering, observability, and developer self-service through automation and Infrastructure as Code.
Education
Sep 2009 - May 2013
BA Economics - University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
experience
Aug 2025 - Present
DevOps & AI Engineer - SC Technology Limited
London, UK
- Designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, managing Kubernetes workloads and CI/CD pipelines for production services
- Building AI-powered automation tools and integrating large language models into developer workflows and internal platforms
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform across multi-environment deployments with GitOps-driven delivery
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
DevOps Engineer - Bench
Toronto, ON
- Rebuilt CI/CD pipelines across 10+ services using GitHub Actions, cutting deployment cycle time from 60 to under 15 minutes
- Built reusable Terraform modules for multi-account AWS infrastructure, enabling self-service provisioning across environments
- Implemented GitOps workflows with Argo CD and ApplicationSets, standardising deployments across development, staging, and production
- Led cost optimisation initiatives cutting monthly AWS spend by ~20% through right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and Spot Fleet strategies
- Contributed production fixes to OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus upstream
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Cloud Engineer - data.io
Toronto, ON
- Provisioned and operated 50+ multi-tenant client environments end-to-end with full on-call ownership, reducing environment-rollout time from days to under 4 hours
- Migrated legacy on-premise workloads to AWS, containerising 30+ services with Docker and deploying to ECS and EKS
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation across multi-region AWS environments
- Built and maintained Jenkins pipelines for 40+ repositories, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and artifact management
- Implemented centralised logging and monitoring with CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and custom Grafana dashboards
- Designed VPC architectures with Transit Gateway, enabling secure cross-account networking for 8 AWS accounts
Skills
AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront)
Terraform & Terragrunt
Kubernetes & Helm
Docker & Container Orchestration
Jenkins & GitHub Actions
Argo CD & GitOps
Prometheus, Grafana & Loki
Python, Bash & Java
Ansible & CloudFormation
Linux System Administration
Networking & Security (VPC, IAM, SCP)
Agile & Scrum Methodologies
Incident Management & SRE
Cost Optimisation & FinOps
Additional Information
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Open Source: Published Terraform modules on the HashiCorp Terraform Registry; Docker images on Docker Hub; active GitHub contributor with public repositories for infrastructure automation
- Side Projects: Built and maintain 6 production web applications (rsvp, bash, price, live, doviz, convert) hosted on personal AWS infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines
- Languages: English (Fluent), Turkish (Native)